Former Treasury Secretaries Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, and former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke took part in a roundtable last week to mark the 10th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, The New York Times reported. Paulson was head of the Treasury when the crisis struck in 2008, Geithner was head of the New York Fed during the crisis then took over at the Treasury under Obama, and Ben Bernanke was Federal Reserve Chairman during throughout the crisis.

“It is important that people focus on the lessons… We are not sure people remember everything they need to remember,” Paulson said.

Bitcoin jumped more than $US600, or about 10%, in a short amount of time on Tuesday. The cryptocurrency broke above $US7,000 for the first time in about a month thanks to the rally. It remained above that level on Wednesday, trading up 1.13% against the dollar, at $US7,397.86, at noon BST (7 a.m. ET).

Tuesday’s rapid price surge didn’t appear to correlate with any immediate news, and some market commentators have pinned the rise on a short squeeze.

“The assumption is this is a combination of some sort of short squeeze and some new money coming in” to the market, Mati Greenspan, an analyst with the trading platform eToro, told Business Insider in a phone interview on Wednesday.